The silent woman : Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes / by Janet Malcolm.

"Janet Malcolm has produced a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography, in which she takes as her example the various biographies of the poet Sylvia Plath." "The Silent Woman is an astonishing feat of criticism and literary detection. It is not a book about the...

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Main Author: Malcolm, Janet.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1994.
Edition:First edition.
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